Queensland Power BI and Fabric User Group

THE SESSION
As data-in-motion becomes increasingly central to modern analytics, the ability to harness real-time insights is no longer optional—it's essential. Whether you're a data engineer, analyst, or business stakeholder working with dynamic data, understanding how to ingest, process, and act on streaming information is critical to staying competitive.

Microsoft Fabric's Real-Time Intelligence provides a unified, low-code platform that enables you to connect to live data sources, trigger intelligent alerts, activate downstream processes, visualise insights instantly, and store data in an analytics-ready format—all within a secure, governed, and scalable ecosystem.

In this session, we'll explore a complete event-driven architecture in Fabric through a hands-on demonstration. You'll see how to connect to real-time data sources, ingest and transform streaming data, configure intelligent alerting, orchestrate automated workflows, and build interactive visualisations. This end-to-end walkthrough will demonstrate how Real-Time Intelligence transforms reactive data operations into proactive, insight-driven decision-making that delivers measurable business value.

THE SPEAKER
Martin Catherall is a Data Architect working on Microsoft Data Platform technologies. He is currently based in Brisbane, Australia.

Martin’s career has expanded from the world of SQL Server Administration and T-SQL development to encompass data engineering and architecture on the Microsoft Azure Platform.

He has over 15 years’ experience in the data industry and has been a recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award since 2014

When he is not engaged in data related activities, he can be found exploring the Queensland landscape (he’s recently escaped Melbourne), learning about Minecraft or Super Mario from his kids and learning the guitar – despite being tone deaf!